Delta Adds Award Blackout Dates to Its Terms and Conditions (View from the Wing). What’s the deal with China Southern having nearly all the year blacked out? I avoided China Southern awards in the post-NWA era because of huge surcharges, though often not quite as big as China Eastern. And the public list is not complete, excluding the also huge blackout dates for Korean.

Club Carlson Visa dumping Bonus Award Nights (The Frequent Miler). Sad to see my favorite credit card benefit go, though I will still keep both personal and business cards. I just had a stay in March in Paris that various promos stacked and got over 80,000 points for 3 nights, and that wasn’t all room service (which I have never ordered).

Yes DCS, it’s called humor. It’s the general alternative to being painfully literal and boring. I also wasn’t aware that it was now necessary for people to state the obvious, i.e. that our politicians should not take kickbacks and engage in corrupt practices.

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Thanks for writing weekly update for your readers. It gives us some reasons to come back from time to time! How could you accumulate 80k just for three nights? The room rate can’t be that high based on eraning ratio?

@Shannon – it was a punishing several weeks on the road, sorry to fall behind. That Club Carlson bonanza was the 30k promo in March for 3-night stay, plus they gave 10k for early bird, plus my account was targeted for triple points, plus the regular stay and gold bonus.

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